Firm Overview:With more than 1,000 lawyers in 17 offices, Morrison & Foerster is a preeminent global law firm dedicated to delivering business-oriented results to clients across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Dynamic technology and life science companies, large financial institutions, leading consumer product companies, and other market leaders come to MoFo for knowledge, innovation, and business aptitude. MoFo handles some of the world’s largest cross-border transactions and resolves major disputes across multiple jurisdictions. The firm has a long-standing commitment to pro bono work and social justice.

Main Areas of Practice:

Antitrust & Competition:
The firm’s global antitrust lawyers are recognized leaders who resolve complex antitrust cases through dispositive motions, but are capable of taking any case to trial. They draw on a deep well of experience to obtain successful results in criminal investigations and merger reviews.

Capital Markets:
The firm is a pioneer in developing synthetic products, hybrid securities, structured products and derivatives. MoFo ranks as one of the leading firms for issuer and underwriter representations for initial public offerings, international offerings, REIT offerings, as well as offerings of debt, hybrid, preferred and structured securities. The firm advises in connection with private placements, PIPEs, IPOs, 144A/Reg S offerings, continuous issuance programs, including MTN, CP and covered bond programs.

Financial Services:
MoFo has one of the most recognized and most experienced banking and financial services regulatory practices in the United States, with more than five decades of work in the field. The firm represents domestic and foreign banks, credit card and other payment systems companies, savings associations, industrial loan companies, and other financial services organizations.

Finance:
The firm’s financial transactions practice provides a wide range of services to both lenders and borrowers, with leading lawyers in finance, investment management, debt trading and infrastructure finance. The firm handles virtually every type of real and personal property secured and unsecured financing transaction.

Intellectual Property:
MoFo has one of the largest and highest-rated intellectual property practices in the world. The firm provides a full range of services, including counseling, prosecution, litigation, dispute resolution, trade secrets, and licensing transactions in patent, trademark, and copyright matters.

Litigation:
The firm’s litigators are renowned for their success in high-stakes, complex cases worldwide. MoFo has some of the top trial and appellate lawyers in the United States, as well as leading practitioners in antitrust, securities, white-collar criminal defense, products liability, class action defense, unfair competition, employment, financial services, international arbitration, intellectual property, trade secrets, and patents. The firm is noted for its U.S. Supreme Court and appellate practice. MoFo is the only international law firm in Japan with a full-service litigation capacity.

Mergers & Acquisitions:
Morrison & Foerster has a leading global M&A practice. The depth and breadth of the practice, including a strong focus on cross-border transactions, reflects the dynamic nature of clients, which include Fortune 500 companies, private equity sponsors, investment banks, and privately held companies. Lawyers work as an integrated team with colleagues with deep experience in key areas such as IP, antitrust, litigation, tax, labor and benefits, finance and bankruptcy, real estate, environmental law, and securities.

Project Finance & Development:
The firm’s project finance lawyers assist clients in all aspects of the development, construction, financing, restructuring, and purchase and sale of infrastructure projects around the world with a focus on energy, alternative energy, and renewable resources. They also provide political risk insurance counseling.

Real Estate:MoFo is a recognized leader across a broad spectrum of real estate activities, including development deals, acquisitions and dispositions, leases, market standard and complex financings, and restructurings. Its clients include lenders, developers, equity investors, and REITs.

Tax:
MoFo’s tax practice enjoys a global reputation for innovative tax planning and the successful resolution of important tax controversies. The group advises on state and local tax, federal tax, compensation, benefits and ERISA, and trusts, estates and non-profit organizations.

Environment

Financial Services Regulation

"A great firm with a very broad practice."

"They're extremely responsive and always very helpful."

Intellectual Property

"I trust their expertise in every field in which we seek their counsel but, more importantly, they provide very practical advice. All the IP partners and associates not only have a mastery of their areas, but they also work with us to find practical solutions to our problems."

"They are very talented. They are very much a go-to firm for significant IP issues."

"Of the firms that have represented us in IP litigation, MoFo is heads and shoulders above the rest."

"We found them to be just exceptional to work with."

Life Sciences

"They have a wonderful IP prosecution practice."

"They are particularly strong in terms of the depth of their bench."

Litigation

"They are able to staff any matter appropriately so they can bring in huge resources whether that be back office or front office support, the right research, or the right drafting."

"They have done an outstanding job in handling a large matter with multiple elements."

Real Estate

"The team is very practical in their advice and have an excellent understanding of the law but are also savvy about the political process and how to shape arguments to appeal to different constituencies. "

Tax

"They are good at managing the situation, managing our expectations and working with us to get the best answer."

"There's a depth of bench; I'm not relying on one person because there's always someone who can attend to needs and who is very competent. "